De les Coves, Gemma

After studying Physics in Barcelona, in 2007 I moved to the heart of beautiful Tyrol for my PhD, where I was fortunate to be supervised by Hans Briegel and work on quantum information and statistical mechanics. In 2011 I moved to the European plain, in Munich, to work with Ignacio Cirac on mathematical physics, more precisely the description of quantum many body systems with tensor networks. I learned a lot of math those years. I also worked on the universality of spin systems. In 2016 I moved back to Innsbruck (unexpectedly) and started building my own group, which consolidated in 2020 with the START Prize. I worked with (generally very fit!) people from all over Europe on mathematical quantum physics, as well as universality and unreachability in physics, math and computer science. In recent years I have been reading philosophy and linguistics books to approach questions that are very close to my heart. In 2024 I returned to Catalonia with an ICREA professorship.